# I am officially an old fart **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 7, 2018, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-officially-an-old-fart/815605 "2018-06-07T13:56:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-officially-an-old-fart/815605/1 "2018-06-07T13:56:27Z")
Yesterday I took a vacation day at work to kid-sit my granddaughter. We were out running some errands and on the way home I realized I had been driving the last few miles with my left blinker on. :smack: At least I wasn’t driving 15 mph in the left lane the whole time. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-officially-an-old-fart/815605/2 "2018-06-07T14:02:14Z")
Damn, I was an old fart by the time I was 20, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-officially-an-old-fart/815605/3 "2018-06-07T14:06:06Z")
It surprises me how many new cars apparently don’t have turn signals. I guess those lights on the front of the car are just for looks. God, I sound like an old person. ETA, you’re not an old fart, everyone else is a young whippersnapper. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-officially-an-old-fart/815605/4 "2018-06-07T14:15:33Z")
The weather has been really nice here, so I drive home from work with the car windows open. It’s noisy. I can’t hear my turn signals clicking. Dammit. Yeah, I went several miles flashing left. On the other hand, it was down a country road without a lot of turnoffs - surely whoever followed me figured it out pretty quickly. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-officially-an-old-fart/815605/5 "2018-06-07T14:20:26Z")
Last summer (or was it the summer before that?) I actually yelled at a kid to get off my lawn. He and his family walk past my house every day and apparently he didn’t like my zombie gnomes and would run onto the lawn to knock them down. He was only maybe 5 and I felt bad afterwards, but I just do not abide people, of any age, messing with my gnomes! ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-officially-an-old-fart/815605/6 "2018-06-07T14:57:22Z")
You’re not an old fart until you don the “Go Faster!” hat. ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-officially-an-old-fart/815605/7 "2018-06-07T17:46:11Z")
I figured I’m an old fart now. I’m halfway to 70! Dang, that’s old! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-officially-an-old-fart/815605/8 "2018-06-07T18:02:42Z")
> [@Gedd](#): > > I figured I’m an old fart now. I’m halfway to 70! Dang, that’s old! According to George Carlin, at 70, you officially become an “Old Fuck.” ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-officially-an-old-fart/815605/9 "2018-06-07T18:42:58Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > It surprises me how many new cars apparently don’t have turn signals. Say what now? ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-officially-an-old-fart/815605/10 "2018-06-07T18:43:21Z")
Also Carlin: “Y’ever get stuck behind a guy whose turn signal has been on for about eighty miles? And you’re thinkin’ to yourself, “Well, maybe he’s just a really cautious man. I’m not gonna pass him now, he may turn at any moment.” And later you discover he was driving around the world—to the left!” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-officially-an-old-fart/815605/11 "2018-06-07T19:07:24Z")
> [@Gedd](#): > > I figured I’m an old fart now. I’m halfway to 70! Dang, that’s old! _Halfway_ to 70??? I’m old enough to be your mother, you whippersnapper! ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-officially-an-old-fart/815605/12 "2018-06-07T23:48:52Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > It surprises me how many new cars apparently don’t have turn signals. I guess those lights on the front of the car are just for looks. > God, I sound like an old person. > > ETA, you’re not an old fart, everyone else is a young whippersnapper. > [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Say what now? Oh hey - it’s because they don’t signal, right? :smack: Here’s an old fart story. Driving today, I pulled in behind an elderly woman in an elderly car. Attached proudly to her trunk was an embroidered, hand-made “bumper sticker” (cross-stitch it looked like). “I’m sorry for driving so close in front of you.” I can verify that she did drive below the speed limit. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-officially-an-old-fart/815605/13 "2018-06-08T00:06:30Z")
The Pathfinder age chart for Humans gives the following; 35 Middle Age 53 Old 70 Venerable 😃 ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-officially-an-old-fart/815605/14 "2018-06-08T01:19:04Z")
I was called an old fart not 30 minutes ago by one of the local guys who dumpster dives for bottles and cans. Didn’t bother me that much. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-officially-an-old-fart/815605/15 "2018-06-08T02:29:49Z")
You’re not an old fart until everything either dries up or leaks. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-officially-an-old-fart/815605/16 "2018-06-08T03:22:00Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Yesterday I took a vacation day at work to kid-sit my granddaughter. We were out running some errands and on the way home I realized I had been driving the last few miles with my left blinker on. :smack: You need to buy a BMW… ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-officially-an-old-fart/815605/17 "2018-06-08T04:08:21Z")
Old farts drive old buicks. Right? Altho’ there’s a group of ladies that tool around Texarkana in legit sports cars. All red with rag tops. They are aged, I am not sure how old the ladies are. They wear big hats so it’s hard to see their faces. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-officially-an-old-fart/815605/18 "2018-06-08T04:51:11Z")
You can ask for and get senior discount at Burger King if you look older than the counter girl’s mother, which can be as low as 39. So that is the age at which one becomes an old fart. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-officially-an-old-fart/815605/19 "2018-06-08T08:15:52Z")
Some people call me “sir” and mean it. That is disturbing. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-officially-an-old-fart/815605/20 "2018-06-08T10:17:17Z")
Recently I had a box boy follow me out from the grocery store to my car and load my bags without being asked. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-officially-an-old-fart/815605.md?page=2)